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They must seize upon and press into enduring art-forms the vital facts of our existence.
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"I keep a pencil sharpened at both ends," he wrote in his notebook; and the same shrewd insight holds for the artist moving between art-forms and genres.
Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation Amit Chaudhuri 2010
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Many Greek and Christian art-forms also bear personages with this sign.
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Why are art-forms associated with women dismissed as being frivolous, superficial, etc?
I enjoy fashion and makeup; I’m still a feminist, right? « Gender Across Borders 2010
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Thankfully, the 20th century has allowed other skills and art-forms to have growing importance in the way we think.
Archive 2009-01-01 Andres Guadamuz 2009
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Each art has a distinctive character and exhibits a certain affinity with one or more of the art-forms.
Hegel's Aesthetics Houlgate, Stephen 2009
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Modern art, for Hegel, can draw on features of any of the art-forms
Hegel's Aesthetics Houlgate, Stephen 2009
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Further, while I do accept the idea that use of these "sacred" artefacts and art-forms outside the "sacred domain" demeans them, I don't accept that this contextual domain can only be defined in terms of where, when and by who such items should be used, but would argue that legitimate limitations might simply rest on how such items should be used.
The Sacred Domain Hal Duncan 2006
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Further, while I do accept the idea that use of these "sacred" artefacts and art-forms outside the "sacred domain" demeans them, I don't accept that this contextual domain can only be defined in terms of where, when and by who such items should be used, but would argue that legitimate limitations might simply rest on how such items should be used.
Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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It is not only the most entertaining but the most satisfying and compelling of all the art-forms, synthesizing, as it does, composition, pantomime, spoken drama, photography, rhythmic motion, and music ....
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